Protection Technical Lead

Country Programme: Ukraine

Base: Kyiv

Line Manager: Program Quality Director

About the Ukrainian Programme of People in Need:

PIN has been working in Ukraine since 2014, providing emergency relief and early recovery support to conflict-affected communities. Due to the escalation of the war in 2022, programmes for war-affected communities focus mainly on WASH, Shelter, Protection, Education, LVH, including recovery and resilience building.. PIN’s contribution to the Ukrainian humanitarian response is amongst the largest, with an annual turnover of close to $100 million, engaging full-time staff members across Ukraine.

About the role:

The primary role of Protection Technical Lead (PTL) is to provide strategic direction and vision for the protection programme, ensuring its comprehensive development and high-quality implementation. PTL will also provide technical support and capacity development to PIN protection team including field staff. Secondly, PTL will provide technical guidance and leadership in embedding protection mainstreaming approach across all other PIN programmes, by identifying programming gaps, providing recommendations, introducing assessment and monitoring tools, and building staff capacity.

Internal Relations:

The Protection Technical Lead works under line management of Program Quality Director and directly supervises the Protection Coordinator. PTL closely works with other Technical Leads within Program Quality Department, with Program Implementation teams (Area Managers, Partnership Unit), MEAL and Grants and Reporting Units, as well as with Partners, ensuring high quality of PIN protection program, program development, as well as integration and protection mainstreaming across all programmatic areas. Protection Technical Lead provides technical support to implementation teams. Protection Technical Lead also based on need, hires and line manages short-term protection technical contractors.

External relations: 

The Protection Technical Lead is the primary point of contact for external relations in Protection sector. PTL is responsible to represent and contribute in Protection Cluster and relevant sub-Clusters, Working Groups, networks. PTL also coordinates closely with relevant Ministries and Government Departments on technical aspects of protection programming.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead the technical support of the protection programme in line with PIN’s country strategy, sector best practices, cluster guidance, government regulations, and donor requirements.
• Guided by protection principles and best international practices, assess the protection programme concept and lead identification and adjustment of protection interventions, to ensure their high quality, appropriateness and comprehensiveness, in conformity the international standards and protocols.

•  Support the development of new programmes and project proposals through technical inputs to and feedback about the project/program methodology and design
• Manage relations with stakeholders, mainly the relevant government departments, donors and partner agencies, by representing the programme in relevant coordination mechanisms and ensuring the distribution of programme information and sharing of achievements and lesson learned.
• Provide protection technical input in other PIN’s programmes in Ukraine as well as to programmes implemented through partners, to ensure protection is mainstreamed across PIN programmatic portfolio.

• Participate proactively and contribute in the Protection technical working group and cluster meetings and reporting, represent PIN at protection coordination platforms and events.
• Develop strategies and plans that contribute to raising the profile of PIN in the Protection sector.
• Develop tools to deliver and monitor protection programme, and for protection mainstreaming in other sector programmes.
• Ensure project team and partner staff use the appropriate systems and tools to ensure relevance, efficiency and quality of programming.
• In cooperation with MEAL team, regularly update that learning from protection needs assessment, surveys and monitoring activities inform proposal development, and are fed back to programme teams.
• Share technical know-how, provide technical expertise and guidance to project staff as appropriate and build their capacity in technical aspects of protection programming (e.g. deliver trainings and workshops, provide on the job couching etc.).
• Contribute to the evaluation of Protection related programming to secure follow up or expansion of funding for the portfolio as per identified needs.

• Contribute to reports as requir